I apologize in advance for this shameless plug for USinternetworking (
http://www.usi.net ), but here goes.

This job is kind of unique compared to others I've had. Granted - I haven't
changed jobs much (twice in 11 years). I work in an operations center that
is staffed 24x7, so we work in shifts. Basically there is a DBA (at least 1)
here, on site, every hour of the week (there are a few gaps here and there,
but we're trying to fill them). Also in the operations center are resources
for UNIX, NT, firewall, network, etc. - 24x7. So (this is the good part),
when you're shift is over - you can leave! It's pretty cool. We're on-call
every 11 weeks right now, which isn't to bad. The on-call DBA only gets
paged if someone in not in the operations center. We currently have ~200
clients (maybe 400 production instances) running Oracle 7.3 - 8.1.6;
applications include PeopleSoft, Broadvision, Siebel, Ariba, Lawson, and
custom apps; platforms are Sun Solaris, HP HP/UX, Sequent, and NT. So you
get experience in a wide variety of stuff.

Here's the shameless plug part - our midnight to 8am guy just quit, so we're
looking for a night owl to take his place. Feel free to email me privately
if you're interested.

How do you protect your "private life" time from your role of DBA?. Do you
have formalised detailed job contracts with your employer covering such
issues?. What perks/incentives do you receive for going that bit extra or
being on call "just in case". Do you get to take your holidays or is that a
ficticious clause in your job contract?. It seems to be that DBA's are
expected to "be there" whenever required, but heck there is life outside
Oracle DBAing (for some of us at least I hope!). I'm not griping here, as I
know there is usually satisifaction in resolving problems and recovering the
database if required yada yada yada.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Theodore Roosevelt

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